From the Founding Editor

A Message from New Editor-in-Chief

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Letter from the Founding Editor-in-Chief

JALDA's Interview with Professor James P. Lantolf

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

Memories of Phil Bryden.

Phil Bryden was a seminal figure in the development of the field of cerebral lateralization in the last half of the twentieth century, and a founding editor of this journal. Here his founding co-editors reminisce about their friend and colleague, and reflect on his wide-ranging influence in the field and in their own careers.

History of Human Biology (1929-2009).

The journal Human Biology was founded 80 years ago by Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist and professor of biometry and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins University. In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of this journal, I was invited by Franz Manni (Executive Editor) to update a previously published history of Human Biology on the 75th anniversary of its founding (Crawford 200...

Articles Drug Abuse by Adolescents : General Considerations 83

Md. Tracey’s pediatrician is Kirk Patel, MD. contents Pediatrics inReview Vol.30 No.3 March 2009 Editor-in-Chief: Lawrence F. Nazarian, Rochester, NY Associate Editors: Tina L. Cheng, Baltimore, MD Joseph A. Zenel, Sioux Falls, SD Editor, In Brief: Henry M. Adam, Bronx, NY Consulting Editor, In Brief: Janet Serwint, Baltimore, MD Editor, Index of Suspicion: Deepak M. Kamat, Detroit, MI Consulti...